Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes

How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending,--the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time.

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Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll.

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The prayer of Ajax was for light.

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Be noble in every thought And in every deed!

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From labor there shall come forth rest.

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Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds.

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What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul.

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My Book and Heart Shall never part.

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If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.

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The soul never grows old.

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Does not all the blood within me Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee, As the springs to meet the sunshine.

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Our faith triumphant o'er our fears.

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Art is the child of Nature.

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Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

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What seems to us but dim funeral tapers may be heaven's distant lamps.

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Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship.

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Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

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And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives.

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Gone are the birds that were our summer guests.

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He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man.

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